Jake Okechukwu Effoduh is a Partner at Praxis & Gnosis Law firm in Nigeria. He is also the founder of Law2Go: a digital library of human rights laws and legal services in Nigeria. Jake holds two master’s degrees in International Law from the University of Oxford, and the Osgoode Hall Law School respectively. For 11 years, he anchored two of Nigeria's most popular radio programmes, earning several national and international awards. He is currently conducting doctorate research on the Legitimization of Artificial Intelligence for Human Rights in Anglophone Africa. At the World Economic Forum, he is a member of the Expert Network on Human Rights and the Future Council on Frontier Risks. He is also an alumni of the Global Shaper community.
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